Winter Animal Holiday Cards

Four animals dressed for winter, a llama, a bear cub, a spotted cub, and a sloth, drawn with the kind of care that makes a person stop and actually look.

A llama in a striped knit hat, a bear cub in a Santa hat, a spotted cub grinning through a pompom scarf, a sloth wrapped in plaid. Each one fine-lined and cross-hatched, watercolor only where it counts. They read as alive without trying to. No attitude, no irony, no performance. Just something open and a little wondering, which turns out to be exactly the feeling you want to hand someone at the end of a long year.

Three designs are winter in general. One is Christmas specifically. That spread was deliberate, so a single set moves across a whole season without asking anyone to sort by occasion.

24 cards across 4 designs makes the most sense when you have a list: a classroom, a roster, a group of small people who should each go home with something that actually looks chosen. At 4 x 5.5 inches, there is room to say something real without demanding a long one.

Innocence is hard to manufacture. These have it, and whoever receives one will feel that before they even open it.